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What’s New in Hermit — Changelog

Sandboxed Lite Apps, Multiple Profiles and Containers: Out of Early Access. Now available to all Premium users.
- Hermit is the first and only Android browser with Sandboxes: completely separate Containers that let you use Multiple Profiles. With the Sandbox feature, you can:
- Separate work accounts from personal accounts.
- Create a separate sandboxed environment for privacy-invasive sites like Facebook.
- Use multiple Google accounts, all active at the same time, in the same browser.
- Use Incognito Mode for sites that offer preferential treatment to first-time users (such as free access to paywalled content).
WebView Crash Protection: Hermit puts you in control even if WebView crashes.
- We made huge changes to the underlying code so that even if WebView crashes (like it did for billions of Android users all over the world in March 2021), Hermit will not crash and lets you choose how to recover from the crash.
- Try it out with this sample page that will cause any Chromium-based browser, including Chrome, to crash:
  
  https://ronsor.github.io/byechrome.html?ok=bye
If you’re curious how other browsers handle this, try this URL in any browser!

Android S Compatibility: Hermit is ready for Android S when it ships in the next few weeks.

We still continue to support Android versions Lollipop (5), Marshmallow (6), Nougat (7), Oreo (8), Pie (9), Q (10), R (11), and S (12).

Sandboxed Lite Apps, Multiple Profiles and Containers: Hermit is the first and only Android browser with Sandboxes: completely separate Containers that let you use Multiple Profiles. With the Sandbox feature, you can:
- Separate work accounts from personal accounts.
- Create a separate sandboxed environment for privacy-invasive sites like Facebook.
- Use multiple Google accounts, all active at the same time, in the same browser.
- Use Incognito Mode for sites that offer preferential treatment to first-time users (such as free access to paywalled content).
Custom Dark Mode Styles: Instead of a small selection of styles, now you can create your own Dark Mode style by picking one from a million colors.

Set as Default Browser:
- Set Hermit as your default browser to open links from anywhere in the proper Lite App.
- If you don’t have a Lite App set up for a particular URL, then Hermit will open it in Incognito Mode by default.
- Get the best of Privacy, Performance, & Personalization in one easy-to-use app.
Dark Mode Improvements: The new Dark Mode works much better than the previous implementation, on many more sites as well. Try it out!
Gesture Navigation Support: On recent Android versions that support Gesture Navigation, Hermit now fully supports edge-to-edge display. When in a Lite App, swipe in from the bottom 200 pixels to open the Bookmarks drawer (left edge) or Quick Settings (right edge). Any area above the bottom-most 200 pixels will invoke the system gesture (Back button behavior).
Configurable Content Blocker: Exclusively available to our Early Access subscribers, you can now select which specific kinds of content you would like to block in Hermit Lite Apps. Configurable categories include: Adware and Malware, Coin Miners, Misinformation, Hate, and Propaganda, Pornography, Gambling.

Enable as Default Browser: ✨ Your most-requested feature is finally here, in Early Access!
- Turn this on in Settings, and you can open all links from other apps within Hermit.
- Links will open in the Lite App if you have one, or in Incognito Mode otherwise.
- This is available today for our Early Access Program members, and in the future to everyone else in the next release.
Incognito Mode: 🕵️ All web links open in Incognito Mode by default if there’s no corresponding Lite App already present.
100% Kotlin: 🧩 We have fully rewritten the app in a new language.
Replaced several libraries with better Kotlin-friendly ones:

🆕 New UI for main screen! The Search Bar is now available for easy access at the bottom, while lesser used features such as “Create a Lite App” and “Settings” are now at the top (instead of in bottom tabs).
🆕 The “Tags” feature is now available to all Premium users (out of Early Access).
🆕 Create a Lite App from anywhere: One click to create a new Lite App from any deep linked page from another Lite App via the Quick Settings menu.
⚡ Several improvements to startup performance.
🐞 New workaround for Google Play related issues experienced by some users.
🐞 Fixes for Android 10 compatibility around Scriptlets & Fonts.